One of the areas that the UK has led on in the EU, and worldwide, is the science of pharmacovigilance and regulatory science. The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is a world class organisation in drug regulation, and has been a leader on drug safety since the thalidomide disaster in the 1960s….

As another example of the general drift into insanity that seems to be happening, try this paper: Holmes D, Murray SJ, Perron A, Rail G. Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism. Int J Evid Based Healthc 2006;4:180-186 [PDF] It argues that evidence based medicine is a microfascism, indicative of a…